| Literature DB >> 3344071 |
C H Albini1, M H MacGillivray, J E Fisher, M L Voorhess, D M Klein.
Abstract
A 19-year-old girl with pituitary insufficiency and a large sella turcica was found to have granulomatous hypophysitis in association with a Rathke's cleft cyst. We think that the inflammatory process represents a foreign body reaction to leakage of cyst contents, with destruction of pituitary tissue.Entities:
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Year: 1988 PMID: 3344071 DOI: 10.1227/00006123-198801010-00022
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Neurosurgery ISSN: 0148-396X Impact factor: 4.654